(n.) The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sixteen barrows and 16 gilts of average liveweight 40 kg were fed on diets containing 0, 10, 20 or 30% copra cake.
(2) Feed intake was reduced when 20 and 30% levels of copra cake were included in the diet.
(3) Proportional reductions in associated drinking-nut fluid and in mature "copra nut" meat from the same palm also occurred.
(4) Without copra, outer islanders will be reduced to a subsistence survival, eked from the land, supplemented by fishing and likely made impossible by tidal inundations.
(5) Major crops, including edible nuts, copra and root crops, are susceptible to Aspergillus growth and therefore potential contamination with aflatoxin.
(6) The effects of including copra meals from different sources in nutritionally-balanced broiler chick diets were compared.
(7) At these chlorine gas treatment levels, extension of the exposure period of the corn meal and copra meal beyond 2.5 hr, and the peanuts beyond 1 day, did not increase the percentage degradation of AFB1.
(8) The diets were basically composed of beet pulp and equilibrated in protein either with copra meal or with urea.
(9) The copra cake replaced an equal weight of soyabean-maize meal in the diet.
(10) More than 75% degradation of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) was achieved after treatment of AFB1-spiked corn meal, spiked copra meal (the residue of the kiln-dried coconut kernels after mechanical expulsion of oil) and peanuts artificially infected with Aspergillus parasiticus, with 11, 16 and 35 mg chlorine gas per g meal or peanuts, respectively.
(11) The mutagenicity of chlorine-treated copra meal and peanuts spiked with AFB1 was greatly reduced compared with untreated controls, as determined in Salmonella typhimurium strain TA98 in the presence of rat liver S-9 mix; the reduction in mutagenicity was found to be highly correlated with the reduction in AFB1 levels.
(12) It has repeatedly been found that in tropical countries where copra is the staple trading product, nutrition did not improve as the copra price rose.
(13) Reduced consumption, digestibility and possibly poor lysine availability and protein digestibility of copra cake are advanced as the main contributing factors for decreased rate and efficiency of gain when copra cake was incorporated beyond 10%.
(14) On the outer atoll of Arno, families work together every day, six days a week, collecting fallen drupes, removing the husks, skilfully shucking the flesh (called copra) and drying it in makeshift ovens.
(15) The digestibility of copra cake was found to be low especially for protein (56.3% for true protein) Protein retention was reduced by high levels of copra cake inclusion.
(16) Chicks however showed considerable adaptation in that efficiency of food utilisation and intakes were increased gradually; the latter appeared to be partly regulated by an increased intake of water that was associated with copra feeding.
(17) If the Chagossians return, they have said they plan to re-establish copra production and fishing, and to develop the islands for tourism.
(18) The copra cake replaced an equal weight of wheat bran.
(19) It is concluded that high levels of copra cake reduce performance of fattening pigs due to reduced feed intake and poor protein digestibility.
(20) In a second experiment 18 female pigs weighing between 40 and 60 kg were put into metabolism cages and fed diets containing five to 30% copra cake.
Extrude
Definition:
(v. t.) To thrust out; to force, press, or push out; to expel; to drive off or away.
Example Sentences:
(1) Potassium or rubidium replaces the extruded intracellular sodium.
(2) Repeated replacements of keratoprostheses extruded or removed because of complications were possible with restoration of the vision obtained after the first implantation.
(3) Thus, it is concluded that the HVA and the DOPAC are extruded from inside the cell to the extracellular space by active mechanisms of transport similar to that reported for 5-HIAA in serotonergic neurons.
(4) Aged RPE, however, extrudes cytoplasm with active lysosomes into Bruch's membrane.
(5) Calcium salts of long-chain fatty acids can supply up to 3% of the dietary DM in diets containing 16% extruded whole soybeans without having deleterious effects on most variables measured in this experiment.
(6) Woronin bodies were observed amongst the cytoplasm extruded from such tips.
(7) 2) A large portion of the accumulated glucose was rapidly metabolized to the two glycolytic end products, lactate and pyruvate, and then extruded into the medium.
(8) The results are consistent with the concepts that the growing membrane protein is extruded across the endoplasmic reticulum membrane amino terminus first and that glycosylation is restricted to the lumenal surface of the membrane.
(9) Though protrusions are common at all levels, truly extruded disc herniations in the upper lumbar area from L1 to L3 are rare.
(10) Large extracellular psammoma bodies result from fused calcific bodies which have been extruded from calcified cells.
(11) No tissue reactions to the ceramic prosthesis were observed and no prosthesis was extruded.
(12) In the presence of ampicillin, discrete lesions appeared in the bacterial cell walls through which cytoplasmic contents extruded and lysis occurred.
(13) After being synthesized there, UCP, which could be either extruded into intermembranous space or directed by lateral movement to intermembranous contact sites, was incorporated into inner mitochondrial membrane.
(14) A gravity feed extruder was adapted to monitor the extrusion forces, the temperature during processing and the rotational speed of the extruding cylinders.
(15) They appeared to consist of material extruded from the outer membrane, but there was no evidence to suggest they were complete unit membranes.
(16) Evidence was obtained that myelin-like material in the lysosomes, probably the result of mitochondrial autolysis, is extruded into the lumen.
(17) The goblet cells showed apocrine secretory droplets which were extruded intact into the nasal lumen.
(18) The latter is maintained by the Na-K-ATPase pump while chloride is extruded into the duct by electrical forces.
(19) When the drug is removed 3 h after insemination, the meiotic spindle(s) is reconstructed, the second polar body(ies) is extruded, and a female pronucleus (or micronuclei) forms.
(20) The cyst was formed by the arachnoid membrane which extruded through a wide lumbar dural defect.